Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Book Review - Hollowmen - The Hollows #2 - Amanda Hocking

Review : Amanda
Hocking picks up where she left off in the book Hollowland and she keeps the
reader biting their nails. If you haven't read the first novel Hollowland
please stop reading my review because it will give several spoilers starting NOW. *** I warned you.

Remy King is a strong
female but at times a confusing character.
We last read about Remy as she was saving her brother from a Military
lab where he was hooked up to machines trying to solve the mystery of why he
was immune to the zombie bites. Remy
takes her brothers place and is put though pure torture for the good of the
world but when the zombies break into the military compound she’s left on an
operation table to fend for herself. Thankful
she has a friend, Tatum, who comes to save her.

The author created another
band of misfit survivors as they travel across the US to find a safe
environment and when they hear that Zombies cannot handle the cold they head
north. Now I will have to take issues with the author and the original band of
misfit Remy King first traveled with. They leave her behind in the evacuation of the
base. I couldn't imagine Lazlo leaving Remy because of how much he loved her in
Hollowland. It broke my heart when she
finally gets to hear Lazlo for the first time only to act like nothing happened
in the first book. I understand that
author wrote Remy to be adaptable to what is going on at that moment without
regret, but it killed me.

As the little band of
misfits help Remy to find her brother and her tiger we are able to finally see
Remy have emotions again, but we also read how much compassion her little
brother has for those around him. In
some ways the author wrote Remy opposite of her brother so if you couldn't
identity with one you could with the other.

Just like the first book there
are loss of characters you love, some that surprise you and character you hope
never to meet in real life. The author
creates great imaginary that makes the reader feel they are walking thought the
heat of the desert or the freezing cold while hearing the zombies moans and
screams all around them.

The author ends the book
perfectly because if she decides she wants to write a new story in the Hollow
series without using the same characters she can because I would love to know
what happened to Lazlo.

I enjoy reading Amanda
Hocking’s Zombie series and it is perfect for those who have never read zombie
books. It has the gore, violence and a little
sex but it is just enough without going over the top.

Where I Obtained the Book: Purchased on Kindle after reading Hollowland.

Synopsis: the sequel to Hollowland....

After six months in the
quarantine, Remy finds out things are much worse than she feared. Her plans to
escape come with a heavy cost, and she realizes that zombies aren't the worst
of her problems.

Author Biography:I live in Minnesota, and I write young adult
paranormal romance and urban fantasy mostly. The My Blood Approves series is
about vampires in Minneapolis, and its available now. I also wrote the Trylle
Trilogy, which is a paranormal romance without vampires, shifters, mermaids,
fae, angels, dragons, ghosts, or ninjas.

My latest book is Hollowland - a zombie urban
fantasy set in the dystopian near future. It's a bit more violent and gritter
than my other books, but there is still romance. Mostly though, Remy kicks a
lot of butt.

I also enjoy Red Bull, Jim Henson, Batman,
Jane Austen, Star Wars legos, and I absolutely hate long walks on the beach out
of my intense fear/hatred of wet sand

My favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck
Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Alan Moore, and J. D. Salinger, but I don't write
anything like them. I have an obsession with River Phoenix, and I've seen
Silence of the Lambs more than any other movie, even The Dark Knight. If I were
trapped on a deserted island, the one thing I'd take with me would be a boat
capable for taking me home.

I'm also the guitarist in a band called the
Fraggin Aardvarks, and even though its even twice as cool as it sounds, we
haven't had a practice in like two years, so I'm not sure that technically we are
still a band. But we never broke up, and it's an awesome thing to tell people,
so I'm sticking with it. (We even had a synethesizer!)

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